The Village of the Blue Sky RebellionPlatform Features

The Village is built on the Discourse platform. The following is adapted from discourse.org.

What’s different about Discourse?

Discourse reimagines what a modern Internet discussion platform should be today, in a world of ubiquitous smartphones, tablets, Facebook, and Twitter.

We’re civilized.

Our trust system means that the community builds a natural immune system to defend itself from trolls, bad actors, and spammers — and the most engaged community members can assist in the governance of their community. We put a trash can on every street corner with a simple, low-friction flagging system. Positive behaviors are encouraged through likes and badges.

Trust system

As members become trusted regulars over time, they earn abilities to help maintain their community.

Community moderation

The flagging system lets the community suppress spam and dangerous content, and amicably resolve disputes on their own.

We’re simple, modern, fun

Discourse pares away all the complexity and puts just the essential stuff on screen — the conversations you care most about, based on your participation.

All the modern amenities you’d expect from a big social website like Twitter or Facebook are present in Discourse.

Mention someone by @name.

Paste in a link or an image, and we make it awesome on your behalf.

Simple quoting and linking of replies and topics.

Reply wherever you are, online or via email.

Conversations, not pages

Why break conversations into awkward and arbitrary pages, where you have to constantly find the Next Page button? We’ve replaced all that with the power of just-in-time loading. Want to read more? Keep scrolling down.

Discourse is a simple, flat forum, where replies flow down the page in a line. Expand context at the bottom and top of each post, and also in quotes, to reveal the full conversation without losing your place.

It “just works” on your phone and tablet

Discourse was designed for high resolution touch devices, with a built-in mobile layout. Read or post from your laptop, tablet, and phone in your browser of choice or the Dicourse apps.

Want to share a cool link you found? Just paste it in on a single line and we’ll make it awesome. Links to Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, GitHub, Twitter, Flickr and hundreds of other popular websites automatically expand to provide additional context and information.

Summarize topics

Use the Summarize button to condense long topics to just the most interesting and popular posts.

Badges

We encourage positive community behaviors through the included set of badges, plus we can add your own custom badges as the Village develops.

Reply via email

When you aren’t active on the website, your notifications will be automatically sent to you via email. Reply via email from anywhere, on any device.